The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.